Tika Devi Gurung, left, and her children Sudesh, Parash, Suk Bahadur and Phul Maya, spent years in a refugee camp in Nepal before they were finally resettled in Ottawa in December. Photograph by: Bruno Schlumberger, The Ottawa Citizen , Ottawa Citizen
Why Canada is hazardous to their health
Every year, tens of thousands of immigrants arrive in this country expecting to lead long and happy lives. While most arrive healthier than native-born Canadians, within a decade that begins to change, and their mortality rates rise, along with their rates of chronic disease. As Louisa Taylor writes, a growing number of experts say the Canadian health-care system is failing many of the people we bring in, and we need to find out why
By Louisa Taylor, Ottawa Citizen February 25, 2012
Tika Devi Gurung, left, and her children Sudesh, Parash, Suk Bahadur and Phul Maya, spent years in a refugee camp in Nepal before they were finally resettled in Ottawa in December.
Photograph by: Bruno Schlumberger, The Ottawa Citizen , Ottawa Citizen
In 2011, the Citizen’s Louisa Taylor won a fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research that allowed her to research and write about immigrant health in Nepal, India, the United States and Canada. “In my work I often hear about the ‘healthy immigrant effect,’” says Taylor. “The idea that newcomers get sicker when they move here seems like an alarming trend in a country built on immigration. This fellowship was my chance to find out what we know about it and what it means for health care.”
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